This article misses a crucial point. We've been training the ability to discern quality (taste) out of the population for the past 50+ years. We do this by redu

This article misses a crucial point. We've been training the ability to discern quality (taste) out of the population for the past 50+ years. We do this by reducing funding for Arts education, shifting STEM courses away from empirical, experimental scientific approaches and mathematical logic to rote memorization and lessons focused on creationism. This gradual shift has allowed us to accept the disposable nature of the goods we consume today. It's all bad machine drip coffee that needs creamer for $5. Watch an action TV show shot in the 70s that features car chases and you will see cars from the 1940s and 50s on the road. Sure, you see cars from the 90s on the road today but very few of them are American. When was the last time you saw a Saturn or a Pontiac? Those companies have only been gone 15 years. To return to the coffee analogy, why is Starbucks so popular? Their beans are stale and over roasted and their drinks are bitter and often scalded to the point that vanilla, caramel and pumpkin lattes are more popular than regular ones. It could be argued that it's because of non-coffee offerings (pink drink, etc.) but I would argue that it's because of a lack of taste and an inability to think for ourselves -- to trust our own taste over the need to fit in to trends (be seen with a green straw or a blue text message bubble). Isn't this why the author used ChatGPT in their example? Brand recognition. And true to form the results are terrible. AI is a product that would have been laughed out of the marketplace by a more discerning public. Sure when it's on it's amazing, but when it's off, it's terrible and nearly 100% of the time it's in-between and close-enough will get sold. This is where the author's argument says people will still buy from a barista, but if most people buy at Starbucks the barista's coffee shop goes out of business and the consumer loses the choice. So many things are coming together in a perfect storm for profit that it is inevitable that AI will be widely adopted, jobs will be lost, products will get worse, the gap between have and have-not will increase at an accelerated rate and worst of all, no one will notice.